Critically Endangered
Caridina striata
Caridina striata
Caridina striata is a freshwater shrimp from Sulawesi.
The crayfish or crab
Caridina striata is a decapod crustacean in the family Atyidae (order Decapoda).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Lake Poso and Lake Towuti. It is commonly found on rocky substrates.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Freshwater crayfishes and crabs walk the bed. Dams, silt, and introduced species cut a drainage into fragments they cannot cross.
Crayfishes and crabs need cover and clean water. A named form from one creek is not interchangeable with the next drainage.
In crisis
It is currently under threat by introduced species like the flowerhorn cichlid, organic pollution by the human activities and pollution caused by a nickel mine.
Caridina striata is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Caridina striata, Wikidata item Q13456023. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
